2024 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2024

Session

(DPE) M3-5 Novel Topics, Teaching Technology, and Labs | Nouveaux sujets, technologie d'enseignement et laboratoires (DEP)

M3-5

27 May 2024, 16:15

Western University

Conveners

(DPE) M3-5 Novel Topics, Teaching Technology, and Labs | Nouveaux sujets, technologie d'enseignement et laboratoires (DEP)

• Ania Harlick (University of Toronto)

4133. Introducing Novel Topics into High School Physics Classrooms

Dave Fish (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

27/05/2024, 16:15

Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

Perimeter Institute’s Education and Outreach team has developed a suite of innovative, world-class resources that have been used by millions of students around the world. These resources go take standard science curriculum topics and connect it to the open questions in physics from quantum mechanics to cosmology using a hands-on, collaborative approach. A core piece of our success has been...

4445. Teaching Physics through brain imaging: case study of a cegep level project-based course

Hélène Nadeau (Dawson College)

27/05/2024, 16:45

Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)

Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e))

Project-based courses have a huge pedagogical potential. They provide an opportunity for students to integrate knowledge acquired in previous courses, and in various disciplines. By working on a project over a few months, students can inquire, formulate plans, hypothesize, develop and evaluate solutions. They have to make some decisions on the information that should be acquired and how to...

4360. (G*) A Proposal of Pedagogy for Upper Year Inquiry Based Lab Work

Urja Nandivada

27/05/2024, 17:00

Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)

Oral Competition (Graduate Student) / Compétition orale (Étudiant(e) du 2e ou 3e cycle)

In this presentation, I discuss the efforts at the University of Waterloo in developing upper year inquiry lab materials based on the SQILabs as designed by Dr. Natasha Holmes and Dr. Carl Wieman (Physics Today 71 (1), 38–45 (2018)).

In our work, we have proposed a set of experiments that make use of ultrafast lasers to situate students in an environment in which they can test their...

4095. (G*) STEM-VIEW: A Graphical Interface for Physics Education

Philippe Laporte

27/05/2024, 17:15

Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)

Oral Competition (Graduate Student) / Compétition orale (Étudiant(e) du 2e ou 3e cycle)

Purpose: For many students, a visual aid of the material presented in a physical curriculum is quintessential for a good understanding. In many cases, a simple diagram is sufficient and the student is able to intuit the impact of the various parameters.
In more complex topics, the role of each parameter can be difficult to perceive.

Method: This interface, completely built in Python, aims...

4281. Teaching Junior/Intermediate Physics Through Woodworking

Christopher Murray (Lakehead University)

27/05/2024, 17:30

Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)

Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e))

This presentation will describe the pilot offering of a program that aims to develop both cognitive and psychomotor skills in students between the ages of 10 and 14 by exploring physics through the use of hand tools and general woodworking techniques. Weekly activity sessions taking place over a six-month period allowed students to work their way through the concepts of force, pressure,...